Saturday, January 21, 2017

WEEK #1: The Most Important Skill (Junior High/High School)

Enduring Idea
The most important skill is how to learn.

Rationale
The creative process requires a growth mindset.


Artist/Artwork
El Anatsui

Key Concept
Learning is Fluid

Essential Question
How does Failure help us?

Unit Objectives
  • Standards
    • "Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues." VA:Cr2.3.IIa 
    • "Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change." VA:Cr1.1.IIIa
  • Own Situation: Love for learning
  • Cross Curricular Application: Psychology


Instruction Plan
  • Objective: Experience and recognize the growth mindset
  • Lesson: Skills and qualities can be learned and improved
  • Activities: 
    • Brainstorming: ten minutes "hash it out" through drawing or writing or compiling images from the internet to the prompt:
      • Describe yourself now. 
      • Describe who you want to be? 
      • What do you wish you were good at?
    • Cross Curricular Application: Take the mindset test as a class (students writing down answers).
    • Watch video that introduces the idea of growth mindset. Discuss applications (personal life, future, history, making art.)
    • Make stuff
      • Explain project leaving room for suggestions.
      • Each student chooses something they want to make a picture of  (anything: self portrait, animal)
      • Each student draws a random scribble on a piece of paper and submits it to a basket. (rocks, clay bits, whatever can be used)
      • Each students draws a scribble from the basket (or handed out).
      • Using that scribble as the foundational structure for their picture they can add to it to create whatever they planned on making.
      • Discuss how the scribble could still be what it needed to be. 

1 comment:

  1. This lesson idea seems to cover a lot of different really good ideas. failure, growth, how to learn, mindsets. I am a bit confused about what the students will do and what will be discussed.

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